Unknown vulnerability in apcupsd before 3.8.6, and 3.10.x before 3.10.5, allows remote attackers to gain root privileges, possibly via…

Description

Unknown vulnerability in apcupsd before 3.8.6, and 3.10.x before 3.10.5, allows remote attackers to gain root privileges, possibly via format strings in a request to a slave server.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

5.1% · top 7.6% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)

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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 10.0.

Weakness

• n/a

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (10)

• http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=137900 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 1006108 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• MDKSA-2003:018 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRAKEx_transferred
• http://hsj.shadowpenguin.org/misc/apcupsd_exp.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• apcupsd-logevent-format-string(11334) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
• 7200 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• SuSE-SA:2003:022 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/apcupsd/apcupsd/src/apcnisd.c.diff?r1=1.5&r2=1.6 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• DSA-277 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• 6828 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Record last updated 8 Aug 2024, 01:43 UTC.